http://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/files/Jazz%20as%20Decal.pdf
Fair warning: this is an exercise in false dichotomies – jazz and classical music in the twentieth century were often feeding off similar roots. But my key contention is that even now, long after Gunther Schuller’s ‘Third Stream’, the phenomenon that is the appeal of ‘World Music’, and the fusion of everything that isn’t bolted down (to mix a metaphor), we still have a sense of what is jazz and what is classical music.
It could be borrowings of melodic, harmonic or rhythmic qualities, or it could be the tendency of jazz musicians to favour more complex harmonies or to otherwise show their allegiance to the avant garde, which seems to me more of a highbrow borrowing from the classical music world than an indigenous jazz trait.
Something about confluences, tributaries here.
So, the following list of tracks represent a slightly selective history of jazz tracks with classical elements and classical tracks with a jazz influence.
I want this list to be an organic thing. If you can suggest any tracks I’ve neglected, please leave a comment.
The 1940s
| Year | The Jazz Side Of Things | The Classical Side Of Things |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Moonlight on the Ganges (Eddie Sauter) - Benny Goodman - 1940 | Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (Szpilman, 1940) - Wladyslaw Szpilman - 1972 |
| Elegie (Massenet) - Art Tatum - 1940 | American Minuet (Harold Arlen, 1940) - Harold Arlen - 1955 | |
| Darn That Dream (Jimmy Van Heusen & Edgar De Lange) - Mildred Bailey with Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - 1940 | Seldom The Sun (Alec Wilder, 1940) - The Alec Wilder Octet - 1940 | |
| 1941 | Laughing in Rhythm - Sidney Bechet | |
| Snowfall - Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra | ||
| Intermezzo - Earl Hines - 1941 | ||
| Serenade To A Maid - Teddy Powell and his Orchestra - 1941 | ||
| The Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov) - Harry James - 1941 | ||
| Rustle Of Spring - John Kirby & His Orchestra - 1941 | ||
| 1942 | The Aghast Ghost - Slava Eman Novacek and His Orchestra - 1942 | |
| Jitterbug Waltz - Fats Waller - 1942 | ||
| 1943 | Artistry in Rhythm - Stan Kenton | |
| The Blues (from Black, Brown and Beige, Ellington, 1943) - Duke Ellington, v. Marie Ellington - 1944 | ||
| 1944 | Fugueing Jam Session (from Evenings On The Roof) - Ray Green - 1944 | |
| 1945 | Dalvatore Sally - Boyd-Raeburn Orchestra - 1945 | |
| Improvisation No. 6 - Django Reinhardt | Ebony Concerto for Clarinet and Instrumental Ensemble (Igor Stravinsky, 1945) - Benny Goodman & Columbia Jazz Combo - 1960 | |
| Avocado Seed Soup Symphony (Pt. 1) - Slim Gaillard, Leo Watson - 1945 | ||
| Memphis In June - Boyd-Raeburn Orchestra, v. Ginnie Powell & David Allyn - 1945 | ||
| Soliloquy (Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1945) - Frank Sinatra - 1946 | ||
| 1946 | Nuages (take 2) - Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli | |
| Out on a Limb - Lennie Tristano Trio - 1946 | ||
| Summer Sequence (Parts 1, 2 & 3) - Woody Herman - 1946 | ||
| 1947 | Lament - Laurindo Almeida - 1947 | Concerto for Clarinet, String Orchestra, Harp and Piano (Aaron Copland, 1947) - Benny Goodman - 1951 |
| The Clothed Woman - Duke Ellington - 1947 | ||
| 1948 | Picasso - Coleman Hawkins - 1948 | |
| Rhapsody In Wood - Woody Herman - 1948 | ||
| 1949 | Similau - Artie Shaw and His Orchestra | |
| Goin’ Home - Art Tatum - 1949 | With Bounce (from Four Piano Blues) (Copland, 1949) - Leo Smit - 1978 | |
| A Bird In Igor’s Yard - Buddy DeFranco | Prelude, Fugue and Riffs for Clarinet and Instrumental Ensemble. (Leonard Bernstein, 1949) - Benny Goodman & Columbia Jazz Combo - 1961 | |
| The Crickets - Woody Herman - 1949 | ||
| Gigolette - Elliot Lawrence (feat. Lucie Bigelow Rosen on Theremin) - 1949 | ||
| Yesterdays - Lenny Tristano - 1949 |
The 1950s
| Year | The Jazz Side Of Things | The Classical Side Of Things |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Mirage (Rugolo) - Stan Kenton - 1950 | |
| 1951 | Yesterday’s Ice Cubes - Raymond Scott - 1951 | |
| 1952 | Lullaby of Birdland - George Shearing - 1952 | |
| 1953 | ||
| Eclipse - Charles Mingus - 1953 | ||
| Clair de lune (Debussy) - Ted Heath - 1953 | Strange Fruit (Lewis Allen) - Aubrey Pankey, p. Frederick Bontoft - 1953 | |
| 1954 | Egdon Heath - Stan Kenton - 1954 | Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra (Liebermann, 1954) - Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Sauter-Finegan Orchestra - 1955 |
| 1955 | You Don’t Know What Love Is - Bud Shank & Trombones - 1954-5 | Rag (from Derivations for Clarinet and Band) (Morton Gould, 1955) - Benny Goodman & Columbia Jazz Band cond. Morton Gould - 1955 |
| Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - 1955 | ||
| 1956 | Django (with Phil Woods) - MJQ - 1956 | Concerto for Billy the Kid (Russell) - Woody Herman - 1956 |
| Bemsha Swing (Monk) - Cecil Taylor - 1956 | Foxtrot (from Suite for Variety Orchestra) (Shostakovich, c. 1956) - Riccardo Chailly & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - 1993 | |
| Of Hope (from Three Little Feelings, John Lewis) - Miles Davis, trumpet; Orchestra cond. Gunther Schuller - 1956 | ||
| Pharaoh (Giuffre) - Orchestra cond. by Gunther Schuller - 1956 | ||
| Poem For Brass (J. J. Johnson) - Miles Davis, flugelhorn; Orchestra cond. Gunther Schuller - 1956 | ||
| 1957 | Edgard Varese and the Jazzmen - 1957 | Cool Fugue - (Bernstein) (1957) - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, feat. Yo-Yo Ma, cond. David Zinman - 1996 |
| Exposure - The Modern Jazz Quartet - 1957 | Transformation (Schuller) - Brandeis Jazz Festival Ensemble - 1957 | |
| All About Rosie (George Russell) - Gerry Mulligan - 1957 | All Set (Babbitt, arr. Schuller) - Bill Evans & Orchestra, cond. Gunther Schuller - 1957 | |
| My Ship (Arr. Gil Evans) - Miles Davis & 19 - 1957 | ||
| 1958 | Moonray - George Shearing - 1958 | |
| Manteca (Gillespie, arr. Gil Evans) - Cannonball Adderley - 1958 | ||
| Love me or Leave me - Nina Simone - 1958 | ||
| Ballad Of The Sad Young Men - Gil Evans & Jimmy Cleveland - 1958 | ||
| Midnight Sun - The Chico Hamilton Trio intr. Freddie Gambrell - 1958 | ||
| 1959 | Air on a G string - Jacques Loussier - 1959 |
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